Hem Chandra Bose

Hem Chandra Bose
Born	1867 Damurhuda Upazila, Bengal Presidency, British India (present-day Chuadanga District, Bangladesh)
Died	April 3/1, 1949 (aged 81/82) Calcutta, India
Occupation(s)	Police officer, mathematician
Years active	1889–1925
Employer	Bengal Police Service
Organization	Calcutta Anthropometric Bureau (later the Fingerprint Bureau)
Known for	Development of the Henry Classification System for cataloging fingerprints
Notable work	Finger Print Companion, A Practical Handbook, by H. C. Bose. Author and Publisher, Finger Print Bureau, Writers' Buildings, Calcutta, 1927 Finger Print Companion
Title	Rai Bahadur
Spouse	Saibalini Ghosh
Children	6 daughters and 1 son, all deceased
Relatives	Many of his grandchildren established themselves in different fields and became most successful in their lives in Kolkata: Gita Dutta, school teacher Mita Ghosh Dr. Rathindra Nath Ghosh, noted gynaecologist, owner of Eveland Nursing Home, Southern Avenue, Kolkata Goutam Ghosh, noted civil engineer and architect Bhaskar Kumar Ghosh, noted Indian-American statistician especially known for his contributions to sequential analysis Sunanda Bakshi Ratna Som, professor of Chemistry, Jogamaya Devi College Subrata Guha Thakurta Subir Guha Thakurta His great-grandchildren work and reside in and around Kolkata and in different parts of the world, and they all proudly treasure this great family legacy. For questions on this page, please contact Susmita Gupta (nee Som) (great-grand daughter of Hem Chandra Bose)

Rai Bahadur Hem Chandra Bose (1867-1949) was an Indian police officer and mathematician at the Calcutta Anthropometric Bureau (later the Fingerprint Bureau). Supervised by Edward Henry, he and Azizul Haque developed the Henry Classification System for cataloging fingerprints. ^{[1] [2] [3]}

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  Hem Chandra Bose

Life and career

Bose was born in 1867 in Damurhuda Upazila of the then Nadia District of Bengal Presidency, currently Chuadanga District of Bangladesh, in a Hindu Bengali Kayastha family. His father was a postman. After topping the matriculation examination in the year 1883 from Jessore Zilla School, he studied Mathematics at the Sanskrit College of Calcutta on a Scholarship from the Natore Raj, and completed his Bachelor of Science in 1888. He joined the Bengal Police Service as a sub inspector in 1889. Between 1889 and 1894 he was posted as an investigating officer in police stations in districts including Madhubani, Saharsa, Pabna and Narail of the then United Bengal. His keen detective work was noticed and in 1894 he was posted at the Directorate Headquarters of the Criminal Investigation Department, or CID, of Bengal Police in Calcutta. There he worked on the fingerprinting system, and remained posted at the CID headquarters, except for a short stint as Instructor at the Sardah Police Training School in 1914–1917, until his retirement as a DySP in 1925. After his retirement he lived in a small apartment in Maniktala in Calcutta with his family, till his death from natural causes in 3/1 April 1949. His grandson Amiya Bhusan Bose joined the West Bengal Police Service in the 1952 batch of the WBCS, and retired as a DIG of West Bengal Police in 1988. ^{[4] [5] [6]}

Haque and Bose (1897)

On 12 June 1897, the Council of the Governor General of India approved a committee report that fingerprints should be used for classification of criminal records. After that year, the Kolkata Anthropometric Bureau became the world's first Fingerprint Bureau. He was working in the Calcutta Anthropometric Bureau (before it became the Fingerprint Bureau) with Azizul Haque. He and Haque were the two Indian fingerprint experts credited with primary development of the Henry Classification System (named for their supervisor, Edward Richard Henry). The Henry Classification System is still used in all English-speaking countries (primarily as the manual filing system for accessing paper archive files that have not been scanned and computerized). ^{[7] [8]}

Bibliography

• Finger Print Companion (1927) ^[9]

See also

• Azizul Haque
• Edward Henry
• Henry Classification System

References

1. Karlekar, Malavika (28 October 2007). "MAPS AND MUGSHOTS- How visual aids became an essential tool of imperial control". www.telegraphindia.com. Archived from the original on 3 February 2013. Retrieved 26 February 2009.
2. "NCRB - Empowering Indian Police with IT". ncrb.nic.in. Archived from the original on 9 April 2009. Retrieved 26 February 2009.
3. "Finger Print Bureau - CID, West Bengal, India". cidwestbengal.gov.in. Archived from the original on 12 March 2009. Retrieved 26 February 2009.
4. Karlekar, Malavika (28 October 2007). "MAPS AND MUGSHOTS – How visual aids became an essential tool of imperial control". www.telegraphindia.com. Archived from the original on 3 February 2013. Retrieved 26 February 2009.
5. "NCRB – Empowering Indian Police with IT". ncrb.nic.in. Archived from the original on 9 April 2009. Retrieved 26 February 2009.
6. "Finger Print Bureau – CID, West Bengal, India". cidwestbengal.gov.in. Archived from the original on 12 March 2009. Retrieved 26 February 2009.
7. "The History of Fingerprints". www.onin.com. Retrieved 26 February 2009.
8. "INSPIRATION LINE Trivia and Facts: First Fingerprints". www.inspirationline.com. Archived from the original on 7 September 2008. Retrieved 26 February 2009.
9. Bose, Hem Chandra (1927). Finger Print Companion: [a Practical Handbook] . Retrieved 26 February 2009.

External links

• The Detective